Game summary for May 26, 2026, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Callum Spellhardt (Human Sorcerer played by Parker Harmon), Hekera Nephera Mawhesk Vyk’sebekenka (Sebek-ka Fighter played by Preston Harmon), Polaris Helmsmeade (Dwarf Templar played by Peyton Harmon), and Ursay (Mongrelfolk Slayer played by Paul Potter). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.
A metallic clank echoed through the ship. The deck shuddered. Between two planks, a circular rim of glossy green metal pushed upward, like something forcing its way through a wound in the vessel. It grew fast—far too fast—until a waist-high pipe stood where only deck boards had rested a heartbeat before. The air around it rippled. The pipe emitted a hungry, hollow glug. Then it inhaled. Loose gear skittered across the deck. A coil of rope whipped toward it. The hair on their arms stood on end as the ship’s air itself began to slide, tugged inexorably toward that green metal maw.
Callum’s understanding of magic helped him negotiate the pipe and help the team orient through the portal. Ursay dove from the mast gracefully into the pipe in an amazing leap. Polaris carefully climbed along the pipe walls resisting the worst of the pull. Hekera attempted to swim through the air with very limited success.
They burst out of a green pipe mouth-first and tumbled onto bright, blocky stone that felt far too solid for space. Above them stretched a sky that looked like painted midnight, stars fixed in place like pinpricks in a stage backdrop. Ahead lay a causeway of floating platforms, hard-edged and wrong, with oversized brick blocks suspended in impossible patterns. Echoing faintly through the strange realm came the fading sound of a woman’s laugh—confident, delighted, and cruel. “This time my father shall be avenged!” claimed the voice.
A goomba, two bob-ombs, a hammer brother koopa, and a magikoopa assaulted the team. The magikoopa conjured a diseased fog, but Callum dispelled it with ease. The goomba tried to charge Hekera and missed. The bob-ombs moved up and began exploding. Polaris slipped past and activated a question block and found a banana peel which he decided not to activate. Ursay lit the enemies up with piercing arrows, drawing the attention of the hammer brother. The koopa hit him with hammers and bit him, dealing deep wounds and impairing his coordination. Callum unleashed numerous spells while the bob-ombs continued exploding.
Ursay got hold of a POW block and knocked most of the enemies to the ground. Callum continued blasting while Hekera continued swinging. The magikoopa tried several spells but only really successfully moved around the battlefield with quickened dimension door spells. The hammer brother proved the most formidable foe and nearly crippled Ursay and Hekera with its vicious bite. Fortunately, Hekera cut it down.
The team found several Mario World magical items, such as magical mushrooms and power form items. They then began searching for a way back to their ship.
